Who Needs Gas When You've Got the Sun?

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	Who Needs Gas When You've Got the Sun?

jmouse

10-14-2006 4:28 PM

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energy, solar power, inventions, boats, ocean

jmouse says:

A boat powered exclusively by sunlight without any use of gasoline will begin a journey from Switzerland to New York on the 16th. Very cool idea but I wonder: What will happen during thunderstorms?

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